Fun Times at Hackforge
Board Game Night
Monday, February 13: 6:00PM
Join us for a night of board games and card games from 6-10PM. This event is free and open to everyone. If you’re new to board games, we encourage you to come by as we will have trusty Hackforgers there to help get you started.
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Book Club: Reality Is Broken by Jane McGonigal (2011)
Tuesday, February 28: 7:00PM
“Visionary game designer Jane McGonigal reveals how we can harness the power of games to solve real-world problems and boost global happiness.” Take part in a casual discussion about this non-fiction book on how video games can change the world.
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Let’s Work Together!
Open Coding Night
Wednesday, February 15
Working on a project? Need to bounce ideas off other programmers? Bring your laptop and get coding! Great event for beginners as well! Tutorials will be available and the event is facilitated a real life computer programmer.
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The Great Canadian Game Project Meetup
Sunday, February 26, 1pm – 4pm
The game jam is on from February 1 to July 1! Participants have 150 days to conceive and create a game that is proudly Canadian! Drop by the monthly meetup to discuss your ideas, ask questions, watch tutorials from mentors to help you get started, find existing projects to join, see progress of other developers and more!
More information to be updated at http://canada150game.ca/
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Build Your Skills:
Border City Data: NoSQL Cocktail Hour
Monday, February 20: 7:00PM
Attend this talk to get an overview of four popular non-relational database systems: Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Hadoop. We’ll ask them where they’re from, what they do, and then give them a quick puzzle to solve to see what it’s like working with each one. This is an encore presentation of the talk that was given in August at the Hackforge Software Guild.
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Software Guild
Wednesday, February 22nd: 7:00PM
Join the group for professional software developers! Each month we tackle a different skill building or professional development topic. Check back for more information!
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